Karagöz and Hacivat

Yenituran Primary School,Ankara,TURKEY2011-2012

H.U.M.A.N. BEINGComenius Project

Traditional Turkish Shadow Theatre Karagoz

• Karagoz The shadow theatre, which involves two-dimensional figures casting their shadows on a screen, had important place in Turkey as well as throughout the larger area of the Ottoman Empire. The Turks, before they came to know shadow theatre in the sixteenth century, had enjoyed a long-standing established puppet tradition.

Students’ Drawings